Florida State University, Universidad de Guadalajara,
UCLA Program on Mexico,
Profmex/World,
Juan Pablos Editor |
265 Págs. |
In today’s global processes, the so-called post-industrial tendency
of industries and services to “move up” the technological ladder
and “move out” to lower cost locations has interwoven cities from
both the global North and South in complex production webs. In
their wake, these processes, have profoundly affected the fortune
of cities and regions by engaging them, abandoning them, or
altogether bypassing them. “Shrinking Cities” connotes the “glocal”
ravages of globalization as well as the challenges to urban
revitalization.
Collectively this volume aims to shed light on the global dimensions
of a phenomenon that, until recently, was believed to be
primarily circumscribed to cities in the North. However, the fate
and fortune of cities and regions in newly industrializin nations
have not been immune to the vagaries of new waves of economic
restructuring associated with fi nancial crises, rapid technological
change, and vertiginous capital mobility.
From industrial suburbs in Paris, Glasgow, São Paulo, Mexico
City and Guadalajara, to Panama’s historic central city and resource-
based industrial towns in South and Eastern Australia and
West-Central Mexico, this book offers an international panorama
of cities, towns, and regions in transition in and out of decline.
Each case study is an instantiation of industrial, economic, and/
or population shrinkage and of its socio-spatial repercussions. The
authors are university researchers and scholars based in Australia,
Brazil, France, Mexico, Panama and the US gathered together
under the Shrinking Cities S/N Project. The project was sponsored
by Florida State University, USA, the University Center of Business
Administration and Economics (CUCEA) of the University
of Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Shrinking Cities International
Research Network (SCiRN).
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